Happy New Year! I hope your 2021 is off to a lovely start. We still have all of our Christmas decorations up. For some reason I am in no hurry to put them away this year. I love all the cozy lights and am content to keep enjoying them. Maybe we’ll take them down this …
Happy Week Between Christmas and New Year’s Day! I hope you had a lovely Christmas. Ours ended up being very nice. We got some snow! Not a lot, but enough to make everything white and to have lazy flakes floating down off and on during Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We took a drive on …
Did you think I’d abandoned this place? No, I haven’t. I’ve tried to write this post a number of times in recent weeks and it simply wouldn’t flow. I admit that I’ve been preoccupied with the state of our nation as well as preparing for Christmas. I’ve also been struggling with some eye fatigue and …
Our little family is hoping to enjoy a boring week. Monday was boring and normal. Yay for normal and boring! Well, as normal and boring as life can be in the midst of Christmas and history defining events in your country and the world. But we did school, did work, and did normal stuff. That’s …
Happy December! I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving weekend. We still have not had our meal. Caroline is slowly picking up steam, but she has had one of those two week colds that doesn’t want to go completely away and has been dragging her down. I think she’s finally turned the corner and seems …
Happy Thanksgiving Week! I hope you have many blessings for which to be thankful this year. Ours will be a quiet week at home. Caroline came down with a sore throat and fatigue thing over the weekend. She was definitely on the up-swing last night when she went to bed and I’m thankful for that. …
Happy Monday! I hope you are ready to make it a good week. I’m choosing to push forward in the midst of these uncertain times and try to make the most of each day. There are a couple of big things happening this week that I can’t write about in detail here because they involve …
Happy Monday! I haven’t posted in a couple of weeks. I tried to sit down and write a few times, but my head was in other places. Yesterday I realized I’m ready to get back in the saddle again of posting and creating about all things home, faith, and homeschool. But before I get to …
Happy last Monday in October! Where has the month gone? I feel like I say that every month, but this month is seems especially true. Overall, we’ve had a good month. We’ve settled into our fall home, work, and homeschooling routine quite well. Caroline has found a new volunteer activity to engage in and is …
Welcome to the coziest time of the year! The truly cozy stretch of autumn and winter is when we fluff our nests a bit and curate the small changes that make our home individually our own as I discuss in Embracing the Simplicity of Homemaking. If you have copies of ideas from my shop, it’s …
We’ve hit peak autumn color here in our area. The color is spectacularly good this year so we are making a point of getting out every day to take a ride somewhere and soak it all in. It’s truly the best foliage display we’ve had in a long time. The oranges and reds, in particular, …
While we desire to live a quiet and simple life, sometimes we must be willing to face reality, stand up, and be counted. A quiet and simple life isn’t something we should take for granted. There are forces at work right now that would undermine our liberty and freedom to live as we choose. As …
